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Instead its ad, featuring the TV presenter Holly Willoughby, is designed to shift party outfits and knitwear rather than make Britons feel warm inside.

"The possibility of this partnership," Ms. Teer wrote in a later e-mail to her colleagues, "is designed to shift the consciousness of people all over the world".

Many buildings in Japan currently have a base-isolation system with a low stiffness that is designed to shift the natural frequency of the building below the frequencies of the ground motion due to earthquakes.

In this paper, a model predictive control (MPC) based supervisory controller is designed to shift the heating and cooling load of a house to off-peak hours.

The Irish banks were already dependent on the European Central Bank (ECB) for funding; in a sense, the bail-out package is designed to shift this aid from the ECB to the IMF and European governments.

CesarConda (@CesarConda) Obama keep-your-health plan "fix" is designed to shift blame to insurance companies and state insurance commissioners November 14 , 20138.15pm GMT That didn't take long: A state insurance commissioner, Mike Kreidler of Washington, has already rejected the president's proposed "administrative fix" and said he would not allow insurers to extend their policies.

"Searchlights like these are designed to shift and move and change colors," Bennett said.

NovaStar's branch system, HUD said, was designed to shift risk from the company to the federal government.

This policy was designed to shift ownership from private hands to government control, said Daniel Varnagy, a professor at Simón Bolívar University.

RCI was designed to shift responsibility for housing production and operations from the Army to private developers.

That seems odd when you consider that they are designed to shift risk precisely from one party to another.